Exam 3: Tools of Dominance: Prejudice and Discrimination

Mr.Smith, an African American man, says he would accept a white man as a neighbor, but would not invite him to dinner.This situation represents:

Most sociologists and psychologists agree that prejudice is not a(n) ____________ human characteristic.

Authoritarian personalities were found to be associated with _______________ by Adorno.

The chief content of ethnic prejudice is:

Mr.Jones owns an apartment house.Although he holds no strong anti-black feelings, he believes that if he rents to blacks, his tenants - all white - will move.Hence, Mr.Jones maintains a "whites only" rental policy.In Merton's terms, Mr.Jones is:

Believing Jews are avaricious is:

Racial profiling is an example of what van den Berghe (1997) has described as:

Presuming you know how someone will behave on the basis of the group they belong to is called:

Dominant groups tend to use negative stereotypes of minorities when the minorities appear to be:

Structural racism played a role in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina insofar as:

A white resident of a college dormitory paints a racial slur on the door of a black resident.This is a case of:

Which of the following illustrates indirect institutional discrimination?

A private school seeks an all-white student body.However, administrators of the school know that they will lose federal funding if they are shown to discriminate on the basis of race.They reluctantly agree, therefore, to accept a few blacks.The administrators, in Merton's terms, are:

Before the American Civil War, Irish Americans, most of them working-class, opposed the Emancipation Proclamation and the freeing of slaves because they feared blacks would compete with them for unskilled jobs.Hence, much violence by Irish against blacks was evident during this period.Which theory best explains this occurrence?